Guide to Specialists

Nabil Al-Tikriti
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
October 1, 2007 - July 31, 2008

Project Focus:
Addressing Ethnic Conflict and Population Displacement in Iraq

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Phone: (202) 429-3871

E-mail: naltikriti@usip.org

Languages: Turkish, Arabic, French, Persian

Nabil Al-Tikriti looks at population displacement in Iraq and its neighbors—particularly at demographic changes occurring since 2003, their effects, and their policy implications for the region. Following a substantial career in the non-governmental organization sector, he joined the Department of History and American Studies at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 2004.

Al-Tikriti was a member of the team that operated the Catholic Relief Services humanitarian assistance project in Iraq in 1991-1992. He later served with Medécins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) as a relief worker in Somalia, Iran, Albania, Turkey, and Jordan. He has also served as a field administrator and election monitor in various programs in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Africa. His numerous awards include two Fulbright grants as well as research support from the University of Chicago and the University of Mary Washington. Al-Tikriti holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern languages and civilizations from the University of Chicago.

Publications:

• "'Stuff Happens': A Brief Overview of the 2003 Destruction of Iraqi Manuscript Collections, Archives, and Libraries," Library Trends 55:3 (Winter, 2007), pp. 730–745.
• "Ottoman Iraq," The Journal of the Historical Society 7:2 (June, 2007), pp. 201-211.
• "From Showcase to Basket Case: Education in Iraq," ISIM Review 15 (Spring 2005), pp. 24-25.
• "Kalam in the Service of State: Apostasy Rulings and the Defining of Ottoman Communal Identity," Legitimizing the Order: Ottoman Rhetoric of State Power, eds. Hakan T. Karateke and Maurus Reinkowski, (Leiden: Brill, 2005), pp. 131-149.
• "The Hajj as Justifiable Self-Exile: Sehzade Korkud’s Wasilat al-ahbab (915-916 / 1509-1510)," al-Masaq 17/1 (2005), pp. 125-146.